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The Citizen-Times 6:22 a.m. ET Feb. 24, 2017

Recently a letter on this page called the Affordable Care Act socialism because it transfers wealth, in the form of insurance subsidies, from rich to poor. Even worse, many ACA critics whine, is that Obamacare puts the government in charge of health care. And its a job killer. And too expensive. None of thats true, but hey it was passed without a single GOP vote. Because Congressional Republicans agreed to oppose Obamas every move. Let the country go to hell, but no son of a black Kenyan would succeed.

But lets return to socialism. I pay more property taxes than renters. Roads are built with taxes. The poor use public roads as much or more as I do. Thats socialism.

Is giving enormous government subsidies to rich oil companies socialism? How about billions to huge agribusiness companies? Still more billions to mining concerns by selling them public land for a pittance? What about huge tax breaks to billionaire hedge fund managers? Or using governments eminent domain power to transfer valuable real estate to developers, including the one in the White House?

Or does transferring wealth from poor to rich not count as socialism?

Marvin J Wolf, Asheville

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Letter: Definition of 'socialism' is misunderstood - Asheville Citizen-Times